Comment 15 for bug 1157196

Sorry for the late reply, I didn't realize you had to subscribe to the bug to get email notifications. I've never used launchpad before. Also having said that I haven't put in a patch for this because I don't know how. I'm also not sure if this is the fixall for vmware because when trying to run natively I get an error in creating a surface and can't initialize EGL. When trying to run as a compositor I get nothing but a blank screen after restarting lightdm.

Being as how I built from source it may be a problem with linking to the right libraries. The hacking guide says to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH to link to modified mesa libraries but I'm not sure where to get these. I tried compiling mesa from source enabling svga, xa, egl and egl-platforms=x11,drm and linking to these libraries with no change.

It looks like other members have edited their respective drm drivers and I hope that isn't necessary for us. I'll try again with precompiled packages and see if it still crashes. If not I'll just have to figure out which libraries I need to link to. If adding vmwgfx to the drivers array will be the fixall I'll request to make a patch for it.